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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 11, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Page 16 the stars and stripes monday March 1a met my scandinavian women also Ponder roles by Gay Pauley up women s editor the problems of the women juggling the roles of wife and homemaker with a multitude of others belong to More countries than  women Are puzzled in Scandinavia too about where am i going is life sufficiently fulfilled with husband and children should i take a Job be More Active in outside life what is my role rom talking with leaders in government and in private organizations in Norway Sweden and Den Mark i got the Overall impression that much of this new puzzlement comes from a manpower shortage developed largely since world War ii which has forced women increasingly out into the labor  s a great debate going in scandinavian countries about the roles of men and women in society said Ingrid Holter who s doing research on the problem with the privately supported Institute for social research. Its purpose to study internationally the behavioural sciences ranging from political to even criminal. Mrs. Holter said in some parts of the world it said that feminism is dead. In Scandinavia we Dis cuss whether women Are participating enough in government the participation rate is High in outside life How the roles of each sex Are  told of one Young swedish husband who wrote a Best Selling Book about his Complete participation i family life in which he concluded that men and women should be equal partners in the total  mrs. Holter said her own research indicates that women Are less politically Active than men less Job minded less interested in change. Still she has found Many among those who do work or have worked dissatisfied with and confused about their  there is an Active group called the norwegian association for women s rights she said and a driven some areas for women to retain their Maiden name As the Lucy Stone league in the United states has advocated since 1921. Women in careers in Sweden now usually use thei Christian names. As Ulla Lin Ulstrom Sweden s Only woman Cabinet member and a member of the upper House of parliament put it i m not at All known As mrs. Martin her husband s name  is customary she said for women in Public life to use the Label  even though single.  also has been accepted in the interest of unwed mothers to remove any discrimination fro Mother or child she added. Mrs. Holter foresaw More problems with the feminine mystique because of the education explosion in Scandinavia and the increasing number of women going on to get University degrees. This is a continuing study she said. We Don know what conflicts this will create in husband and wife roles whether in such families there will be Amore equal  in private life the attractive Brown haired re searcher is mrs. Peter Holter 44, wife of a psycho analyst and Mother of a 14-year-old boy. She majored in economics at the University of Oslo and was a visiting student at the University of California an Radcliffe College in the United states. Who runs things at the Holter Home everyone asks me that she laughed. The answer is we both  coming this week Money jazz seminars set in Bonn Karlsruhe Bonns a a topic dear to women namely Money will be mulled and dissected during a panel discussion featuring an inter National collection of economic journalists. Scheduled wednesday at 12 30 . In the american embassy club the Bonn american women s group sponsored panel will be headed by Robert a. Haeger of the . News and world report. Panellists include miss Marianne theil of Dusseldorf s Indus Trie Kurrier Jess Lukonski of the journal of Commerce Colin Law son of the London daily express and Roland Delcour of France sle Monde. Tickets Are available for $1.75 at the american embassy club or at a desk outside the bad Godesberg Bonn commissary. Karlsruhe Germany special a unique music seminar featuring a wide Range of . Folk songs jazz of the 20s, concert selections and today s pop beat and soul music will be presented by the Karlsruhe High school music department March 12, 8 ., in the school auditorium. Arranged by Ronald Voeller music director the program will include More than 100 students groups Small ensembles soloists. The Public is invited. Narrative descriptions of the various performances based on research on All forms and styles of music will be presented by Junior and senior English . Voeller serving his first year at Karlsruhe earned his a and a at St. Thomas College St. Paul Minn. Before coming Here tie taught music at St. Thomas in the Virgin islands and at Ramey air Force base in puerto Rico where he organized a band and vocal festival which included 900 students. Formerly a building for flight Crews it t now a spacious geography classroom for american students. From flight buildings to accreditation Heyford school awakes the Grade by Bob Hoyer is . Bureau chief in the spacious school Library a student thumbed through dictionary at the ready refer ence  the language Laboratory a teacher taped lessons in soundproof Booth. Department by department Survey of upper Heyford High school illustrated the transformation of air Force flight Crew quarters into a remarkable High school Plant. The conversion became a necessity when the 66th tactical reconnaissance Wing move from France to Britain in the fall of 1966.for the most part equipment for the school was moved  High school a facility that was closed As consequence of the . Mili tary s departure from  big Job was creation of an acceptable physical Plant. Veteran administrator Wil Liam j. Easley was put in charge of the conversion. A supervising principal of All schools at upper Heyford an nearby Croughton he worked out the renovation with base commander col. John j. Davis. Fifty nine 60 by 20-foot build Ings formerly used by flight Crews provided a nucleus Andin the words of Easley were ideally designed for use a classrooms. You really could t ask for much better classrooms. They Are Roomy have Good heat and Light. Throughout this entire project colonel Davis has been extremely cooperative in getting us what we needed. I know there wore times when it must have been difficult to find funds. But the colonel never wavered in his support of us and always came up with a  spacious Well lit room with t hot by quit two Crew buildings Combine for school Library. More than 6,000 volumes the Library rates As the High Point of conversion. The soundproof taping Rooming the language Laboratory was deemed necessary because of the noise of High performance aircraft. The 66th flies Rf-101  one year the school has corrected 12 major Clefie Encis cited by Northern Central association inca inspectors. The association which Rales High schools in the ., has recommended upper Heyford for accreditation after its second  More improvements have been  the next year a hot lunch program will be instituted and an elementary lib Rary and an Industrial Art Complex will be created in each Case by combining two existing  supervising Principe Easley is in charge of All schools at upper Heyford kindergarten through sixth Grade and Junior and senior High school and Crouton  through sixth Grade a faculty of 65 teaches the More than 1,500 pupils in the system. Not Only is the upper  Ford school Plant different Mil the distance that pupils com mute is greater than at Mosi american schools in Europe. Seventy two per cent of Tow attending classes in grades oni through 12 travel to and fro school by bus a fact that explains the $90,000 annual trans port contract. Teachers also must  greater distances than at mow dependent schools. But Easley said Thoy dont seem to mind. He 1 Hullt 15the average distance at Miles. Innell Jennings one i or faculty members who feared As a group from thu  1%m she accepted the move As Challenge and thoroughly Joys the new school she 17 Miles from work  
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